<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br>> Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.</div><div> <br>Um, no. You are probably too young to remember 4-bit and 6-bit bytes and other popular word sizes.<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte<br><br>> Even the worst pedants will accept variations on the use of K (1024<br>> also Kelvin) for k (1000) as often these are misused.<br><br>Um, no. That's why the worst pedants developed<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541<br><br><br></div><div>Lloyd Wood<br>lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk<br>http://sat-net.com/L.Wood<br><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Narelle <narellec@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Gear <ausnog@libertysys.com.au> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 15:38<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] [SAGE-AU Discuss] [RESULTS] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?<br> </font> </div> <br>On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Paul Gear <<a ymailto="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au" href="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au">ausnog@libertysys.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> A soft summary: it seems that those of us on 10 MB or less are behind the<br>> times, mostly thanks to gmail.<br><br>> I'd also like to publish some of the comments i received off-list. Because<br>> i said i would summarise the results for the lists, i'm
going to assume that<br>> anyone who emailed me directly will be happy to be quoted anonymously.<br><br>{begin grumble}<br><br>Are you going to include some meta analysis like the number of<br>"techies" that use units incorrectly whilst also claiming to be<br>authoritative?<br><br>MB vs mb - the latter always means millibits.<br><br>Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.<br>Anything else will render their meaning bit set to 0.<br><br>Even the worst pedants will accept variations on the use of K (1024<br>also Kelvin) for k (1000) as often these are misused.<br><br>{end grumble}<br><br>PS I note a certain large ISP has just announced a cloud based email<br>service with 30MB of outgoing message size and 3GB of storage.<br><br>-- <br><br><br>Narelle<br><a ymailto="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>